*NIX Rules!

[amiel]

This is just a thread where you, the *nix enthusiast can rave about the wonders of Unix, Linux, Solaris, *BSD or other nix!

To the uninitiated... there is life after m$ windows...

(I just couldn't help myself )

 

[zoziw]

Well, technically, OS X Tiger is running on a modified FreeBSD operating system and I am running that on one of my desktops and one of my laptops.

I have a 5 year old Windows XP box with a hard drive about to fail. Since I can't find the XP disk that came with it I plan to try KNOPPIX and run it off a CD using an old 20 gig drive that is still in good shape for storage.

That will bring me down to one Windows laptop left in the house.

 

[Lecarde]

OSX is unix. It uses a hybrid kernel....a modified BSD kernel with the mach kernel working with it.

I love *nix. Ive mostly used linux, but I may branch out into other stuff soon....I love experimenting, haha.

 

[amiel]

Glad to see there are a least a few *NIX lovers. hehe

Has anyone used Solaris (Since it is free now)

 

[tweaker]

I haven't used Slowaris I basically eat sleep and breath Linux now. Though I still have my SCO Unixware disks laying around. I've used both Free and OpenBSD. OpenBSD is said to be solid about security, but installation and setup was a pain, and they sacrifice a lot of features (like multi-proc support).

Linux users, what's your prefered/favorite distribution and why?

 

[LiberatedChick]

I'm running Linux...tried FC4, though whilst it helped me learn.. we didn't get on well. Now running Ubuntu.

 

[chritophera]

I haven't had a lot of experience with LInux....from what I hear its better, but I can't be sure...never really used it much.
I do have a copy of Linspire around here somewhere....

 

[Lecarde]

Debian = Awesome.
That is all.

 

[Arnediad]

FreeBSD = better.
That is all =;P

 

[somedude]

Gentoo = best
That is (more than) all

 

[Arnediad]

Gentoo just looks like Linux with a FreeBSD-style ports tree to me.

If I had to use Linux (not likely), I would probably go with either Gentoo or Slackware, not the bloatware distros that seem to rule the Linux world right now.

 

[tamtam92]

I've used solaris at school... and i was quite lost. I'm more used to a simple Linux Mandrake. Yet my distrib is quite old now, maybe i should change. Anyway i wouldn't know what to choose, and i'm quite lazy to try a lot of things (and besides it's not my own computer so i don't want to disturb the other users too much).

I think that for a basic user windows would be more adapted though.

 

[somedude]

I actually was wondering if I should download Solaris and try it out. It uses Gnome and they say it's quite fast, so I might try it

 

[WalksWithChrist]

OS X. I've dabbled with a few versions of Linux, but nothing beyond the "Joe User" level. Basically, I can install and poke around a bit.

 

[tweaker]

Gentoo just looks like Linux with a FreeBSD-style ports tree to me.

If I had to use Linux (not likely), I would probably go with either Gentoo or Slackware, not the bloatware distros that seem to rule the Linux world right now.

I've dabbled a bit with gentoo, but it was on odd hardware: a dual 850MHz AlphaServer. I don't think it was a good representation of gentoo.

My programming intern is heavy into gentoo (he's actually on the gentoo ppc dev team) and he's been trying to talk me into migrating from redhat to gentoo. It sounds to me that gentoo is really targeted at people who like to build gentoo distributions.

 

[raphink]

I began using *nix with YellowDogLinux on an old-world Mac some years ago.

Then I bought a PC and used Mandrake on it for a year or so. I was soon tired with urpmi and other not-so-great stuff about Mandrake.

So I switched to Debian sid and began to work on a debian-based distro for Christians (which has not yet been released but is in progress). I recently switched to Ubuntu. Though I had been deceived by it some time ago, I think it's now become a great distro. I can do all the things I could do on Debian while having all my hardware recognized and get the latest versions of programs.

I wouldn't use Gentoo because i really have other things to do than spending 70 hours compiling my system and waiting 1 hour each time I want to install a program to try it. Still I think it can be great to install an optimized server.

Every month, I install linux on one more friend's computer and so far they all seem happy with it

 

[Arnediad]

I wouldn't use Gentoo because i really have other things to do than spending 70 hours compiling my system and waiting 1 hour each time I want to install a program to try it.

You know that both Gentoo and FreeBSD also provide binary packages, right?